Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with "rebound beau", vigorous vegan math professor Tad Tocco, is more than satisfactory. When the latest murdered corpse to clutter up her jurisdiction turns out to be her exceedingly unlovable boss, Heather...

11:05 p.m. Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in the Commonwealth of Virginia's electric chair. His death is not the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after young Eddie Heath goes out to buy a can of soup, his nude, grotesquely wounded body is found propped against a dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta remembers that Waddell arranged his victim in a strikingly...

Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-stakes croquet tournament.

Foregoing her sled dog training after knee surgery, a bored Jessie Arnold goes to help in an Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair, but when the event is overshadowed by a murder and the disappearance of her lead dog, she finds herself targeted by a killer.

Ex-cowgirl and current sleuth Benni Harper is struck with surprises good and bad when she sponsors a "senior prom" at the local retirement home: first she finds herself dancing with an old crush from her teen years, and then she finds two dead bodies in one of the retirement home's rooms.

"Hoping to relax after solving a murder in Wichita, Kansas, Benni Harper and her new husband, Gabe Ortiz, are back in San Celina, California. But while Bennis is jogging in the park, she happens upon the dead body of a library storyteller. It's an odd and disturbing scene - the woman is still dressed in her Mother Goose costume, lying facedown in the lake. Benni's investigation takes her inside the Storyteller's Guild, where she finds out that Mother...

Ex-cowgirl and current sleuth Benni Harper makes a fast friend at her family reunion--Shelby Johnson, a young photography student from Chicago drawn to the West by her desire to capture it on film--but the friendship ends just as fast when she discovers Shelby dead the next day.

Lindsay and Jill are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when the townhouse across the street explodes into flames. A sinister note signed "August Spies" is found at the scene, while an infant who was asleep in the house at the time of the disaster remains unrecovered. As a wave of similar incidents erupts across town, the Women's Murder Club starts to identify a pattern of political terrorism that leads right back to August Spies. Now, with...

Newly ordained Episcopal minister Clare Fergusson must prove herself as a leader to the members of her church, but her blunt manner has earned her a chilly reception and when a newborn baby is abandoned on the church stairs, Clare must find a way to sort through the secrets and silence that surround the town.

Get ready for one of Kinsey Millhone's "wildest adventures yet" ( San Francisco Examiner ) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton L is for LIES... When Kinsey Millhone's landlord asks her to help deceased World War II vet Johnnie Lee's family find out why the military has no record of his service, she thinks it'll be a cinch. But she is about to meet her match in world-class prevaricators who take her for the ride of her life. L is...